May/June 2008
Around the Quads
Spectator Chairman Retires
Photo: Daniel Yeow ’08 GSAS/SpectatorRichard Wald ’52 (fourth from right) retired this year after 40 years as chairman of the Board of Directors of The Columbia Daily Spectator. Wald, who was news editor of Spectator, was managing editor of The New York Herald Tribune and The Washington Post, president of NBC News and vice president of ABC News. He is the Fred Friendly Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism. This year, he worked with Spectator’s editors to launch a $400,000 fundraising campaign that is part of a work-study initiative to pay student editors who qualify a stipend for their work at the paper. Wald is joined at the annual Blue Pencil Dinner in Low Rotunda on February 23 by (from left) Amanda Erickson ’08, John Davisson ’08 and John Mascari ’08 of Spectator’s 2007–08 managing board; Leonard Downie, executive editor of The Washington Post; and Manal Alam ’09, Amanda Sebba ’09 and Tom Faure ’09 of the 2008–09 managing board.